Article List

I use this page to keep track of interesting articles that I have found around the web.

Last Updated: June 22nd, 2019

Environment

Know about E-waste and ways to combat them

Author: Gadgetronicx

Synopsis: A great piece covering the dilemma of e-waste and what we can do to improve the situation.

Programming

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)

Author: Joel Spolsky

Synopsis: This is a great article describing the minimum that you should understand about character sets and the variety of different encodings available.

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What Killed the Linux Desktop
Author: Miguel de Icaza
Synopsis: In this article Miguel describes a number of shortcomings of Linux as a general purpose desktop operating system for the public at large. He draws the line between what users want and what developers want to work on.